Abstract

Manipulating electoral systems provides authoritarian elites with a subtle mechanism for controlling immediate electoral outcomes and partisan politics more broadly. Electoral system engineering seems likely to increase in direct proportion to the success of domestic and/or foreign election monitors ability to prevent the time-honored practices of interference and fraud. Government challengers can make gains by engaging authoritarian regimes in debate and struggle over these hidden institutional arrangements. (excerpt)

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